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☆ Middle East Crisis Army Begins Work on Floating Pier Meant to Get More Aid to Gaza, U.S. Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Helene Cooper | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] More than 200 aid workers have been killed in the war in Gaza, according to the United Nations. Weeks before the World Central Kitchen strike, a logistics coordinator for another American aid group called ANERA returned home after distributing supplies. Mousa Shawa was still wearing his ANERA vest when an Israeli strike hit the house, killing him; his 6-year-old son, Kareem; and several neighbors. “We’ve seen tracers going towards the sea.” At this shelter on January 8, the aid group said a projectile was fired through the building, killing a 5-year-old girl. What went wrong in the deconfliction system is still not clear to the aid group.

Persons: “, misclassification, It’s, ANERA, Shawa, Kareem, Mousa, Dua, they’d, they’ve, —, ” Israel, Israel Organizations: Central Kitchen, Washington , D.C, Israel Defense Forces, United Nations, The Times, Hamas, Times, Munitions, Sky News, International Rescue Committee, Aid, “ Locations: Washington ,, Gaza, Israel, Israeli, ANERA, British, U.S

☆ The Apple Vision Pro is blowing users away during their demos. But there's one issue.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

🥹🥹🥹 what a day can’t believe Vision Pro is out pic.twitter.com/p0JCkuZ7Z1 — Linda Dong 🥽 (@lindadong) February 2, 2024The excitement grew as Apple Store visitors tried the Vision Pro. AdvertisementWent to Apple Store to do the Vision Pro demo and I can’t articulate what exactly I just saw. @peach.mcintyre COME WITH PEACH 🍑 TO THE APPLE STORE TO DO A FREE DEMO OF THE APPLE VISION PRO: APPLE PRO REVIEW ♬ original sound - Peach.McIntyreBut not everyone expressed total enthusiasm for the headset. Opinions on the weight of the Apple Vision Pro — which some early testers complained crushed their face — varied. Whether or not those who demoed the Vision Pro in-store ended up purchasing their own, customer interest in Apple's flashy product seems to be strong.

Persons: —, techies, Du, flo o, Hal l, arie, ava Organizations: Service, Vision, Apple, Business Locations: SION, sion

☆ Painting by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II to go up for auction
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A painting by Denmark’s former monarch, Queen Margrethe II, is going up for auction. “You now have the opportunity to acquire a very special – and not least royal – work of art,” said the auction house, which has set an estimate of 75,000–100,000 Danish kroner ($11,000-$15,000). The painting dates from 1988, the year that Margrethe started to exhibit her art officially. Queen Margrethe at an exhibition of her work in January 2012 Keld Navntoft/Scanpix Denmark/AFP/Getty Images“The queen found her inspiration for the painting up for auction in the natural world, expressing it in a lyrical idiom. “We are very much looking forward to offering this work by H.M. Queen Margrethe II, which testifies to her immense passion for and prolificacy within art and creative work,” he added.

Persons: Denmark’s, Queen Margrethe II, Bruun Rasmussen, “, ”, Margrethe, Hans Sølvhøj, Queen Margrethe, Keld, ” Niels Boe, H.M, Boe, Hauggaard, “ Queen Margrethe, Frederik, King Frederik X Organizations: CNN, Getty, Contemporary, CNN’s Royal Locations: Scanpix Denmark, AFP, Denmark, Copenhagen

Oct 2 (Reuters) - Russian technology company Astra on Monday said it was planning to list its shares on Moscow Exchange this month in an initial public offering (IPO), potentially breathing some life into Russia's moribund equity capital markets. Electric scooter firm Whoosh (WUSH.MM) was the only Russian firm to hold an IPO last year, but its debut raised less than half its initial target and relied heavily on Russian retail investors for capital. Astra dominates Russia's operating system (OS) market with its Astra Linux software. Alfa Bank analysts valued Astra, which more than doubled its core earnings year on year to 5.4 billion roubles in 2022, at around 70 billion-90 billion roubles ($707 million-$909 million) in a report published on Monday. Also on Monday, spirits producer Kristall said it was hoping to raise 1.5 billion roubles in a fourth quarter IPO on Moscow Exchange, something it said would significantly accelerate growth.

Persons: pipemaker, Ilya Sivtsev, Sivtsev, Kristall, Alexander Marrow, Louise Heavens, Kirsten Donovan Organizations: Astra, Moscow, Astra Linux, Reuters, Alfa Bank, Moscow Exchange, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine

Dudamel was hired in February to become the Philharmonic's music director for the 2026-27 season. As part of the gift, the music director will become The Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Music and Artistic Director Chair starting with the 2025-26 season, when Dudamel becomes music director designate. The 42-year-old Dudamel has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he starts in New York. He quit as music director of the Paris Opéra in May, two seasons into a six-year contract scheduled to run through the 2026-27 season. Oscar Tang, 85, has been part of the philharmonic board since 2013 and has been co-chairman with Peter W. May, since 2019.

Persons: Gustavo Dudamel, Oscar L, Tang, Agnes Hsu, Dudamel, L, H.M, Oscar Tang, Peter W Organizations: New York Philharmonic, Tang, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Paris, philharmonic, Reich Locations: New York

☆ David Grann on the Wreck of the H.M.S. Wager
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On this week’s podcast, Grann tells the host Gilbert Cruz that one of the things that most drew him to the subject was the role that storytelling itself played in the tragedy’s aftermath. “The thing that really fascinated me, that really caused me to do the book,” Grann says, “was not only what happened on the island, but what happened after several of these survivors make it back to England. They have just waged a war against virtually every element, from scurvy to typhoons, to tidal waves, to shipwreck, to starvation, to the violence of their own shipmates. Now they get back to England after everything they’ve been through, and they are summoned to face a court marshal for their alleged crimes on the island. And if they don’t tell a convincing tale, they’re going to get hanged.

☆ With His Tale of Shipwreck, David Grann Is Steady as He Goes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

THE WAGER: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David GrannThere were multiple moments while reading David Grann’s new book, “The Wager,” about an 18th-century shipwreck, when it occurred to me that the kind of nonfiction narratives The New Yorker writer has become known for share something essential with a sturdy ship. A vessel freighted with historical controversy, tangled facts and monomaniacal characters needs to be structurally sound, containing and conveying its messy cargo. It should be resilient yet nimble enough to withstand the unpredictable waters of readers’ attentions and expectations. The men were survivors of the H.M.S. Wager, a British man-of-war that had left England nearly a year and a half before, part of a squadron that had been tasked with capturing a Spanish galleon filled with treasure.

☆ Virginia Fifth Grader Is Celebrated for Spotting Textbook’s Error
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Liam Squires, like many students, usually answers the question “How was school today?” with an evasive answer along the lines of “I don’t know.”This is why weeks passed before his mother, Megan Squires, learned that he had spotted an error in a science textbook that the publisher, dozens of students and his own teacher had missed. Liam, 10, had noticed that two rocks were misplaced in a diagram of the rock cycle. The significance of his discovery was not clear to his mother until months later in March, when Liam was praised by the school district superintendent and received a letter from the textbook’s publisher. Liam saw the mistake toward the end of a school day at H.M. Pearson Elementary School in Catlett, Va., about 50 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.

☆ Fire breaks out at Russian oil refinery near Ukrainian border
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Feb 8 (Reuters) - A fire broke out on Wednesday at an oil refinery in Russia's southern Rostov region near the border with Ukraine and was later extinguished, state media reported, citing the emergencies ministry. "In Rostov Region, Novoshakhtinsk city ... a message was received at 10:24 a.m. Moscow time about a fire on the territory of an oil products processing plant," the ministry said. Novoshakhtinsk is about 9 km (6 miles) from the Ukrainian border. Another refinery in Novoshakhtinsk was struck by two drones last June, in what the plant called "terrorist actions from the western border", a reference to Ukraine. Wednesday's fire was the second in two days to hit a Russian refinery, following an incident on Tuesday at a Lukoil (LKOH.MM) unit in Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow.

☆ Which to Choose: Medicare or Medicare Advantage?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Paula Span | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Which to Choose: Medicare or Medicare Advantage? Medicare Advantage plans, like traditional Medicare, are funded by the federal government, but they are offered though private insurance companies, which receive a set payment for each enrollee. The proportion of eligible Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans has hit 48 percent. Which is better: Medicare or Medicare Advantage? Credit... Kenny Holston for The New York Times Unlike most Medicare Advantage plans, traditional Medicare does not include drug coverage.

☆ Planet Labs Finance Chief Says SPAC IPO Was Key to Recent Growth
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-08 | by ( Mark Maurer | Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

Ashley Johnson, chief financial officer for Planet Labs PBC, said the satellite-imaging company made the right call to go public by combining with a special-purpose acquisition company—better known as a SPAC. Ashley Johnson, chief financial and operating officer at Planet Labs PBC. Shares of Planet Labs closed at $11.35 on Dec. 8, 2021, the day after the company said it completed its SPAC merger, according to FactSet. WSJ’s CFO Journal talked to Ms. Johnson about Planet Labs’ past year as a public company, investing and finding efficiencies as the economy slows. It’s unfortunate that a lot of companies that shouldn’t have gone public did go public using that vehicle.

☆ Pretendenții la funcția de deputat. Litigiul pentru o datorie de 10 mii de lei la energie termică a lui Marc Tkaciuk și veniturile de 4 mii de lei în doi ani ale lui Iurie Muntean
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-22 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +11 min

În 2014, Muntean a fost exclus din partid, după ce, în prealabil, a fost demis din funcția de secretar general al formațiunii condusă de Vladimir Voronin. Iurie Muntean a fost implicat în acea perioadă și în alte scandaluri, după ce a fost acuzat că ar fi provocat diverse incidente în Legislativ. În mai 2020, dosarul a fost însă clasat, după ce Tkaciuk a fost audiat în calitate de bănuit. Şi el a fost deputat comunist și a lucrat alături de Marc Tkaciuk la președinția condusă de Vladimir Voronin. Actul nu a fost contestat în instanță, dar candidatul nu a fost pedepsit, pentru că mandatul său a expirat la scurt timp după constatările CNI.

Persons: ZdG, Gheorghe, Iurie Muntean, Muntean, Vladimir Voronin . El, Vladimir Plahotniuc, Igor Dodon, Viorel, Ala Reajeva, PCRM . Ea, Reajeva, Marc Tkaciuk, Voronin, Moldova . El, Vladimir Voronin, Tkaciuk, Todua, Poleanschi, Suzuki Swift, Anastasie Pavlov, Pavlov, Miercuri, Renato Usatîi Organizations: Partidului Acțiunii, Congresul Civic, Comuniștilor, PCRM, Economiei, CEC, Mercedes, Poleanschi, Volkswagen, Skoda Octavia Locations: Moldova, Judecătoriei Chișinău, comunist, Șoldănești, Integritate, Dondușeni, Donduşeni

☆ Locuitor al satului Puhoi îl acuză pe un candidat PAS de agresiune fizică și șantaj
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-21 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +1 min

Locuitor al satului Puhoi îl acuză pe un candidat PAS de agresiune fizică și șantajUn locuitor al satului Puhoi, raionul Ialoveni, Gheorghe Toma, susține că este șantajat în numele lui Petru Frunze, candidat PAS la funcția de deputat, dar și de alte persoane din satul vecin, Țipala. Bărbatul susține că îi este frică pentru securitatea sa și a familiei sale. Într-un briefing de presă la IPN, Gheorghe Toma a povestit că, în anul 2006, a fost agresat de Petru Frunze și de un alt sătean, Ghenadie Bârcă. „Cineva m-a adus acasă, plin de sânge, cu un ochi nu vedeam”, își aduce aminte Gheorghe Toma. Noi vrem ca să fie dreptate, dar până ce nu se vede nimiс”, a mai spus Gheorghe Toma.

Persons: Gheorghe Toma, Petru Frunze, Ghenadie Bârcă, Gheorghe Toma . El, telegraph.md, Petru Locations: Puhoi, Ialoveni, Republicii Moldova

☆ Расследование: Исполком Гагаузии закупил на деньги ЕС медицинское оборудование по завышенной цене у про-российского активиста
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-30 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +4 min

Компания, с которой исполком совершил сделку, была создана за 2 недели до заключения контракта и собрала в общей сложности 756 000 леев. Если бы он забрал устройства напрямую у официального дистрибьютора в Молдове, то исполнительный заплатил бы всего 600 000 леев. Таким образом, Исполком обогатил посредническую компанию, которая, судя по всему, была создана специально для этого приобретения, на 156 000 леев. В «критериях оценки» конкретно указывалось, какие параметры должны иметь устройства УЗИ и от какого производителя — Mindray (Китай). На вопрос moldovacurata.md ее представители сообщили, что «Икар-Глобал» закупил здесь устройства УЗИ по 300 000 леев за штуку, всего 600 000 леев.

Persons: —, Mindray, Юрий Кара, Башканат, Мариана Пырэу, Виктор Петров, Петров Organizations: USG, Facebook, Исполнительный комитет, НАШ, Исполком, Управление здравоохранения, АТО, ИкарГлобал, Агентство государственных закупок, СП, Народный антикризисный штаб» (НАШ), НСГ, Народное Собрание Locations: —, Гагаузия, Молдова, ЕС, Комрат, Китай, Республика Молдова, Запад

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▼ + stars: | 2020-06-25 | by ( ) noutati.md time to read: +1 min

Stațiunea populară de munte Bukovel a fost distrusă, transmite Telegraph.mdRâul local, care a ieșit din mal, a distrus autostrada H-09 Mukachevo-Rogatin. Pe lângă problemele cu traseul, turiștii spun că stațiunea a fost inundată. De asemenea, lângă satul Mikulichin a fost spălat complet podul și acum traversarea pe drumul Yaremche-Bukovel este imposibilă. De exemplu, în regiunea Lvov râul a inundat circa 100 de case și 100 de incinte nelocuibile. Citește și: Raport ONU: Coronavirusul a dus la creșterea producției și a consumului

Persons: saul Tatarov, Ivan Varchenko, Coronavirusul, Arsen Avakov Organizations: ONU Locations: Ucrainei de Vest, Lvov

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